DISCOVERY OF EUROPE (743 pp.)—Edited by Philip Rahv—Houghton Mifflin ($5). Some of the sharpest observation and writing about Europe has been done by U.S. visitors—diplomatic, literary or merely ...
THE GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF HENRY JAMES—edited by Philip Rahv—Dial Press ($4). In his brilliant youth, the one English novelist that young Henry James of New York, Albany, Newport and Boston admired was ...
Lee Siegel is a contributing writer to Book Review and the recipient of the 2002 National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. “Palefaces” on one side, and “redskins” on the other was how the ...
William Phillips, who has died aged 94, was co-founder and editor for more than 60 years of Partisan Review, considered in its heyday to be the most influential literary and cultural journal in ...